Join us for an irreverent exploration of itchy id impulses, eroding social etiquette, well-meaning idiocy, insidious ego worship, the allure of exploratory artists and the search for purpose in a world bursting at its seams with redundancy.

The Beard is a multi-media digital comic presented as an enriched PDF document. This means that if you spend some time hunting and clicking around on the fantastic artwork by Ryan Stanley, you’ll find links to exclusive downloads or streams by bands and artists featured in the story, sound effects, reference pages and whatever else we think of as we figure this thing out in front of you.

Our plan is to release 5-8 page chapters monthly until the first 28-page issue is complete, at which point we’ll collect the chapters as a single issue before figuring out a release schedule for the next installment.

MARCH 1, 2017We're taking a bit of time to "remix" issue one before moving forward. Take a look at this before and after video of Ryan's recolouring/art additions to Page 4. It'll be worth the wait, we promise. Thanks for bearing, or baring, with us.

Fearing that his facial hair may be trying to communicate with him, an idealistic slacktivist undergoes a surreal metamorphosis in an alternate future Toronto.